Tatevosyan Hovhannes Karapetovich
In 1908 he entered the Tbilisi Art College. In 1910-1917 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture by K. Korovin, then in VHUTEMAS (1921-1927). Since 1917 the artist lived in Samarkand. Was close to Nikolaev, V. Ufimtsev. One of the organizers of the school "municipality Samarkand" (1918) and the School of Painting and Sculpture in Yerevan (1921). In the years 1918-1919 Tatevosyan actively participated in the decoration of Samarkand to the revolutionary celebrations. He was the author of colorful promotional displays. For the artist's works in the twenties typical conventional planar decorative style, which led to accusations of stylization and passion of the exotic. Since 1932 Tatevosyan lived in Tashkent. In 1937 Tatevosyan worked as chief designer of the pavilion of Uzbekistan at the All-Union Exhibition in Moscow. Participated in exhibitions since 1912. In 1966 Tatevosyan moved to Moscow.
Option biography:
(1889, Yerevan - 1974, Moscow)
Member of the Association of traveling exhibitions, RALIS and board member of the Union of Artists of Uzbekistan, People's Artist of Uzbekistan.
In 1908 - 1909 he studied at Tiflis art school, then seven years
the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture A. Vasnetsov. NA Kasatkin
and K. Korovin. V1914 was as the result of student practice, there was a cycle of works "Trebizond", which marked the birth of the original artist.
In 1915 Tatevosyan arrived in Samarkand, where he organized an art school (1918 - 1919) and the Commission for the Protection of Antiquities (1919 - 1920).
In 1921 Tatevosyan enters the Higher Art of Ceramics Department. In 1927 he returned to Samarkand, organizing studio ARIZ (Association of Fine Arts), and in 1930 - Izofabriku (experimental production workshops spatial arts).
In 1932 he moved to Tashkent, the custodian of funds of the museum works of art. One
first drawn to the topic of the Civil War and the construction of socialism in Central Asia, creating a thematic pictures "on the fly, Bassmachis village" and "prosperous life" (1933).
In 1935 he wrote "of the collective farm" - a huge multi-figured fabric, transforming the village harvest festival in the apotheosis of the collective existence.
In 1937, Tatevosyan - the main artist of the pavilion of Uzbekistan on VDNH in Moscow in 1941 - 1948, working on a series of paintings devoted to the Great Patriotic War.
Personal exhibitions Tatevosyana held in 1912 (Yerevan), 1929 (Samarkand), 1949
and 1964 (both in Tashkent). The works of artists adorn the exposition of many museums of the former USSR.
Pictures at an Exhibition: